From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 4 9:38: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F14F637B401 for ; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 09:38:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from otter.mills-atl.com (dsl-64-192-140-77.telocity.com [64.192.140.77]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E69F143E3B for ; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 09:38:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jmmills@telocity.com) Received: from localhost (jmills@localhost) by otter.mills-atl.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA02335; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 12:41:01 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: otter.mills-atl.com: jmills owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 12:41:01 -0500 (EST) From: John Mills X-Sender: jmills@otter.mills-atl.com Reply-To: John Mills To: FreeBSD-questions Cc: ryans@gamersimpact.com Subject: Re: Window/File Manager In-Reply-To: <1036430278.61de1060jud@myrealbox.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ryan - On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Jud wrote: > -----Original Message----- > From: Ryan Sommers > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Date: 03 Nov 2002 21:55:37 -0600 > Subject: Window/File Manager > > I recently decided to bring my old Presario 1220 our of retirement and > make a small toy laptop to play around with. Unfortunately it's only a > 200mhz/64mb RAM system with a 2.1gb harddrive. I would like to use X if > possible but given the hardware limitations I really can't have a > bloated featureful WM or FM and still have a usable laptop (after all if > the GUI is slow I might as well install 98SE). I have an anaemic Cyrix/166 box which started with only 16 MBy. FreeBSD's default WM just thrashed - half a minute to see results of any action! > What are your favorite ultra-light WM's and/or FMs? I'm just looking for > something that does the job, looking nice would be an added benefit but > I doubt I'll have a high color depth to play with anyway. I configured 'fvwm2', which is lively and fine, even on that sad box. Supposed to have some degree of KDE compatibility now, but I didn't test that. Configuration is old-style by hand [i.e., text files], but I still remembered a few basics of that. &6-) Sorry - no advice on file managers. - John Mills To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message